Video 1. Introduction to ECEA

Health policies are intended to increase the uptake of effective and efficient interventions and result in health gains (e.g., premature mortality and morbidity averted). Health policies can also provide non-health benefits in addition to the sole well-being of populations and beyond the health sector. For instance, social and health insurance programs can prevent illness-related impoverishment and provide financial risk protection. Health policies can also improve the distribution of health in the population and promote health…

This tutorial supports the teaching pack on Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (ECEA) and illustrates how ECEA is conducted. In addition to the tutorial, materials include videos and a glossary. The tutorial details the main steps of ECEA which examines four key domains for a given health intervention: Health gains Financial risk protection benefits including the amount of private expenditures averted Distributional consequences (e.g. across socioeconomic status) Cost of the intervention This teaching pack was developed by…

In this video, Dr. Stéphane Verguet talks about quantifying the financial risk protection benefits in ECEA. ECEA includes the estimation of an important non-health benefit: the provision of financial risk protection (FRP), or the reduction of individuals’ and households’ impoverishment, which is tied to the elimination (aversion) of private expenditures. Access the video. 4. Financial Risk Protection (~5 min) Students are introduced to two metrics of lack of financial risk protection: catastrophic health expenditures…